And at about minute six he did the thing that I think, in the end, is the most accurate portrait of that man that exists.
He thanked, by name, in front of two hundred and eleven people: his mother, Ondine’s parents, his best man, the venue — and Piers Yardley, “without whom none of this would have been possible.”
None of this.
He meant the wedding. He meant the flowers and the marquee and the string quartet.
Marguerite Oyelowo played that video in a room in the February and stopped it at minute six and asked me whether he had appeared to be joking.
He had not been joking. He was showing off. He stood up at his own wedding and publicly thanked the man whose company had been used to move investor money, in front of sixty of those investors, and every single one of them clapped.
That is the thing about the whole of this. Nobody hid anything at that wedding. They were not being careless. They genuinely did not think of any of it as something to hide.
